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February 2001

A perspective on the U.S.-Canada manufacturing productivity gap

Lucy P. Eldridge, Mark K. Sherwood

The U.S. advantage over Canada in manufacturing productivity growth during the 1990s, as measured by BLS, was led by dramatic growth in information-technology-related industries and does not appear to be significantly affected by the use of different statistical methods by the two countries

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